Lead Software Engineer - remote

Mastery Logistics Systems, Inc.
Posted 3 years ago
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About the Role

The transportation industry has no shortage of complex problems requiring creative solutions to scale efficiently. In this role, you will collaborate with a small team to understand user and market needs, participate in architectural design, and build distributed systems to facilitate our web-based platform.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with stakeholders and engineers to navigate business objectives
  • Collaborate with other lead engineers to ensure best practices are used by all engineers withing the organization
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code 
  • Engage in the full development life-cycle including architectural design and testing
  • Be a force-multiplier on the velocity and quality of your team
  • Enjoy leveling up engineers by being a mentor and teacher of the art
  • Stay current on software engineering trends &tools, and be practical but open-minded in applying them
  • Maintain a high bar for quality and performance of your product with vigorous attention to detail and automated testing
  • Have strong understanding of event driven architecture, Kafka is a bonus 
  • Continuously improve how we design, build, and ship software as a highly functional team

Requirements

  • 8-10 years of practical experience in software development, including designing, building, deploying, and maintaining web applications
  • Experience with with one or more of the follow languages Java, C#, C/C++, Go,
    Python or JavaScript with a willingness and ability to learn new ones
  • Experience working with at least one of the following: React or similar frameworks, continuous integration / continuous delivery tools, REST API development, serverless architecture, containerization, IaC, public / private cloud, application observability and/or messaging / stream architecture
  • Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals: unit testing, code reviews, Agile and DevOps
  • Ability to understand complicated problems and craft into simple solutions that can be maintained by the rest of the team
  • Ability to train and mentor junior engineers
  • Experience with SQL and RDBMS
  • Experience NoSQL technologies a plus
  • Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Compassion and empathy
  • Experience in logistics industry a plus

Benefits

Mastery takes great pride in providing our employees a robust and highly competitive benefit package.  Our benefits include Medical, Dental and Vision insurance covering 90% of premium costs.  Company paid life insurance for 1x salary.  Legal, AD&D, Additional Life and other employee assistance benefits. We have a 401k savings plan with a 4% match.  We provide opportunities for professional growth and development.  We fully support our work from home initiative as we do our part to combat the Covid 19 crisis.  We have a manage your life and schedule Paid Time Off program.  We are fully devoted to finding creative perks and benefits since we cannot currently enjoy our cool office culture.  Our philanthropic partner is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and actively seek a diverse community of professionals.  Veterans, Women, non-binary, people of color, LGBTQIA, we welcome all to apply!